Comparison: Smith vs. Bradford In comparison to the content of both John Smith's writing from "The General History of Virginia," and William Bradford's excerpt from "Of Plymouth Plantation," showed few similarities and many differences. Almost everything in one of the books is opposite to everything in the other, such as the lack of preparation both Smith's group, and Bradford's group of colonists suffered. Bradford's suffered from the lack of proper clothing for the severe weather …
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…situations were remedied by the way of befriending the Indians, whom without the help of, the colonies most likely would not have survived. Because the Indians had lived in the new land, long before the colonists, they knew the land and how to work it. The Indians showed the colonists how to do the same, and the colonists utilized this knowledge given to them by the Indians which led to the success of each colony.